Description
Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man’s quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While reading a history book of the area, Rumi • a trail crewman in the Rocky Mountain Parks system • learns of two mysterious mountains, and their story is re-entered into the climber’s imagination. Excited by the idea of seeing the mountains and retracing the steps of earlier mountaineers, Rumi begins a pursuit to reach these peaks and to find out if they truly do exist.
Based on a true story from the Rocky Mountains and filled with exhilarating descriptions of one climber’s attempt to tackle some of the world’s greatest peaks, Hooker & Brown explores the effect of mystery and historical inaccuracies in our lives.
Short-listed for the 2009 Boardman-Tasker Award.
“With this powerful and highly poetic first novel Jerry Auld achieves a new peak in the literary interpretation of the nature, history and culture of the mountain West. It is a book about the power of maps and dreams that explores our relationship to gravity and ghosts, rock, water and place with an ending that will leave you breathless.”
— Robert William Sandford
“A highly technically accomplished mountaineering novel with a clever plot-line and convincing characters.”
— Adjudication Jury, Boardman-Tasker Award 2009
Softcover: 5.5 x 8.5
240 pages
ISBN: 978-1897142400
